Just think to our existence in the universe, being religious or not humans exist for the simple fact of "just because".

Why do all the Transformers have to be males?

Females Transformers can exist for the simple fact of sharing emotions with the males and Primus wanted them to be more in touch with them self and not so logical. I feel there doesn't need to be a "why do we need them or why are they here". Then it makes it kind'a sexists saying females only exist to bare us men's seed.

And with the Beast Wars characters there still the same Cybertronian as the G1 so being male or female is no different. Having an Organic Alt. Mode doesn't change that matter.

I don't know if I have the perseverance to take up the semantic sword again to champion my case on the matter... but I'll have a few things to say at least.

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Originally Posted by KAGE

You also are basing your ideal of what a human female is on to a species that is not human. But if there is no different in sex in Transformers as you say. What's the point of referring to Arcee as a "she", what the point of the term Fembots?

What indeed?

I'm not imposing a human notion of female on a non-human species. I'm pointing out that the whole concept of "female" is entirely dependent on our own paradigm. Calling "fembots" female would be equating them with the binary biology of many Earth creatures, which would be a fallacy. By definition, Fembots cannot be "female"... therefore they can only be something else.

It may be something that reminds us of our own "females" but even that would be ridiculous, because depending on the species, or even just the particular human culture in question, "female" can mean many different things.

Even on earth, we have creatures that do not rely on the male/female binary. We also have many animals where the female is the larger, more robust or more aggressive gender. We have cultures where femininity is defined by obesity rather than slenderness. The notion of conferring the title of "female" onto members of an asexual alien race simply because it reminds us of a very specific contemporary ideal of femininity, is utterly futile.

Oh geez, not this again... Please let it go. The above mentioned thread covered it enough for this decade.

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